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Eugene Rabinowitch

A Russian-American biophysicist and activist who fled Germany in the 1930s to escape anti-Semitism there, Eugene Rabinowitch was a founder and longtime editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Between 1945 and 1973, he wrote more than 100 articles for the magazine.